Researches principally relative to the morbid and curative effects of loss of blood / by Marshall Hall.

  • Hall, Marshall, 1790-1857.
Date:
1830
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Credit: Researches principally relative to the morbid and curative effects of loss of blood / by Marshall Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of loss of blood. On these greatly depends the tendency to defective or to excessive reaction, and to the state of sinking. So that the effects do not correspond with the measure, or even a comparative measure, of loss of blood, in different subjects. Sometimes there is no reaction. At other times the reaction is excessive and even violent. In a third instance we may be surprised by the sudden accession of a sinking state, or even of the symptoms of immediate dissolution. I think the whole of these varied and even opposite phenomena admit of a ready explanation. In general it may be said that reaction is principally observed in connection with strength of system ; in infancy and in old age reaction is slight; exhaustion from loss of blood is then most apt to shew itself in the form of failure or sinking of the vital powers. But a question still more interesting even than this, is that of the influence of different diseases in inducing in the system, resistance or susceptibility in regard to the effects of loss of blood. The discussion of this subject, and its application to practice, are reserved for the second part of this work.